Monthly Archives: July 2013

I thought about many different designs like lace bonnet, velvet, small brim, large brim etc … and found out this frou frou style bonnet made with lots of pink silk chiffon seem to match the best for the dress and the doll.

I decorated back if the brim with antique pink silk ribbons and vintage millinery flowers. The inside hat is constructed with wire including the brim. It turned out to be very sturdy and rather heavy bonnet. It needs to be pined from the top so that it will stay on doll head.Next project is making hat for the aqua color dress!

Ah~, it’s been a while since I made really girly pink dress for my doll. I tend to choose chic colors often and not using pastel colors. But I must say it was fun! I should be using this color more often. 🙂 After constructed top portion, I thought about using some complicated designs from waist below.I have made few prototypes of waist decorations and skirt over-ray etc … Honestly I was spending more time for this process than actual sewing. At the end, I chose this rather simple, traditional design. Just because this design seem to fit the best for the doll.

Exploring different designs with pink silk fabric on little Bru Jne 4. Surprisingly she looks very nice with pink color. It’s been a while since I used pink fabric for my Bru and I am having lots of fun making girly dress.

Reno was having record breaking heat for all week last week. Where I live usually doesn’t get very hot during summer and we don’t have AC in our house. It was very uncomfortable when outside temp reached over 100 degrees and I could not get on dress making because I didn’t feel like using iron during such heat. Fortunately heat wave finally left us and I was able to use iron to finish the dress.

I was planning to use silver threaded flower trim for accent but turned out it makes dress look too busy so I decided to use antique buttons instead. I also did not use complicated patterns for the front panel because it looks too busy and destructing. It would look great on larger size dress but I tend to like smaller size dress with simple design. I will be making one more dress for my 14 inch Bru and I think I am going to use pink next!